While much has already been stated on this matter, I feel strongly that there are some things really worth stressing, using my experiences and knowledge of moderating content across social media.

Journalist Tom Phillipsmakes a crucial point: “just because there is an obvious problem doesn’t mean that there is a simple solution.”

It’s easy to say Twitter must “do more” when it comes to dealing with online abuse. But if you’re going to make that argument then you need to know a) what Twitter does already, b) what it could do in conjunction with law enforcement, and c) the potential difficulties that ‘doing more’ could entail.

Phillips distils these practical issues thoughtfully here: Who can report abuse? Will there be a right of appeal? How can moderators be trained to better flag up potentially abusive content - and will these moderation policies be consistent across the jurisdictions in which Twitter operates? Will these measures be rolled out for only English-language Twitter, or its foreign language services too? And those are just a handful of the potential stumbling blocks.

The offline world is still inhabited by some men who believe that women who voice an opinion must be put in their place. This is simply reflected and amplified online. Twitter did not create the misogynistic monsters that hurled grotesque tweets at Criado-Perez or send the same to other women on a regular basis; online platforms simply make it easier for these individuals to behave in appalling ways, and it is far harder to ignore published text than a hateful comment made by some Neanderthal in a pub.

So often in British public debate, a desire for a quick fix to technologically-amplified societal problems trumps nuance. Take David Cameron’s battle to clean up the dark recesses of the internet as an example. Our politicians and certain newspapers claim Google ‘must do more’ when it comes to tackling how such grotesque, criminal content is found, citing how Stuart Hazell and Mark Bridger viewed images of paedophilia before murdering their victims.

However, there has been scarce discussion of what makes truly depraved individuals like Hazell and Bridger seek out this horrifying content. The understanding of the technology involved also seems worryingly flaky, as the Telegraph's tech blogger Mic Wright points out in this excellent post.

As he rightly says, “for policies that truly deal with this evil, we need politicians to truly understand the technology, not just the whims of tabloid editors”.

It is precisely this deeper understanding of not only the technology we use but our societal problems as a whole that we need to work towards. A one-day Twitter boycott, a real-name policy, a flat joining fee or a report abuse button might give the veneer of a solution, but online fixes shouldn’t mask the fact that we have real work to do in our offline world.